It was already nightfall. On the beach. Two men sat side by side as they observed the sunset attentively. Pete was all smiles all through as he could finally breathe without being surrounded by his heavy guards. He was glad to have this bit of freedom. He turned his face towards the ghost. "You must be so happy to be finally out of the cemetery?" He spoke his eyes happy for the man beside him. Earth hummed out as he relaxed his body. From the look on his handsome face, he was very happy. Extremely happy. Pete was contemplating something but with a deep sigh, he looked back at the sky and enquired. "Will you like to leave the cemetery and live with me?" Earth stiffened. By then Pete was looking at him with an expectant gaze. Earth returned the look with a surprised one. "What? Is that possible? But I can't leave there" "If you agree, I know of a way" Pete clarified. But Earth b it his lips and was lost in thought. Thinking, he didn't want to leave, Pete sighed with a dejectedly
Outside the city mall.Pete, with his beguile smile, gazed up at the skyscraper building. He turned his gaze to the guy beside him and his smile broadened. "Do you like here?" He asked.Earth shyly looked around. It was the first time in his twenty-five years of being a ghost to be outside. Seeing so many people, he went closer to Pete. He was scared. After all, it was his first time."Cough cough" Pete coughed hard. His eyes were burning from the incense stick in his hand.Earth peeped at him worriedly. "Is it choking you? Are you in pain?" The innocent ghost blinked his eyes. Pete gritted his teeth as he clenched his fingers around the stick so hard that if he was to put any more strength, it was going to smash to smithereens. He didn't know if the silly ghost beside him was dumb or pretending to be. His emerald eyes scanned the plaza delightedly. It was his first time as well being outside with a lot of people. It was either he stayed at home or at his hostel. "When will your l
This is the second bonus chapterWish you all happy reading....................................Mr Tawan dropped his gun and began clapping his hands.Everyone present stared at him in trepidation. Pete also dropped his gun and flashed one of his dreadful smiles. "You see dad, I will just say these in a sentence...I will not apologise for whatever I had done since I live in the hostel, I can't come to you all of the time, I may have acted cool today...I left the house to greet mother's grave because I missed her and..." Looking at the sad expression on his old man's face, he sighed and suddenly pulled on his ear "I... I am sorry for failing to listen to you. I love you father".The butler and the senior maid watched the scene happily. It wasn't the first time they had both seen the loving scene."Though my promises are pointless, I still promise to obey your rules....happy" He forced a smile. Mr Tawan happily embraced his son and with pride, he announced "He is going to be the futur
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Bombs rained on the city's crowded streets.A harsh winter wind blew out of the midnight sky. It roared out of the frigid north and thrashed the brooking forest. The force of it bent trees, whipping their bare branches like angry lashes. Shrieking across the river.The maple trees from afar were black and slick in the rain, their bare branches shiny. The flower bed was a soggy matting of dead stems.Bright, flashing lightning lighted up the sky like fireworks; banging, crashing thunder roaring furiously, sizzling, electrifying lightning zipping across the night sky.Amidst the storm, a Porsche car was driving along the hills. Windshield wipers barely kept up with the cold, hard rain. The rain came steady and cold against the windshield and rattled on the roof of the car.Inside the car, two silhouettes were seen. One with a cold expression while the other, saddened.The downcast figure turned his head away and looked out the window, where it had gotten dark and shiny with the lights g
Life is short but still full of wonders. Too bad I just realised that now. Now that I am no more. Ever since I have died, my spirit has been roaming around. Funny to say but I have visited up to 100 countries. What I couldn't do when I was alive. Being a ghost is not quite bad but being a lonely one is terrible. For a 15-year-old ghost, I wonder why I haven't been reborn yet. Further, I wonder why my family hasn't come to pay me respect. Is it that they are dead or have they just forgotten about me? Or they are lazy to come here?.Sitting on my grave is far more than being lonely. It is exasperating and thwarting. It is annoying waiting for someone to come and pay my soul respect but still alas no one came. Every year, I wait expectantly but I still get disappointed. My hopes get shattered."Look at our friend being all lonely again when he has handsome friends around" I turned my head to the man that spoke. My mood dampened seeing him."Stop teasing him already, you know he is differ
Just like the previous years. Another year passed in a flash. But unlike every year, I wasn't hoping to see my family. I hoped to see that boy. I wish to prove to my friends that he can see me. "When will you stop, Earth?" I recognised the voice but I ignored it."You are only hurting yourself the more and the people around you" The person murmured, his voice sounding hurt."I don't care...I don't have any peace of mind here ok...I just need to find out something, is that too much?" I countered back and faced him "Arthur and Dan do not mind at all, then why you uh?" I interrogated him. For the past years, he has been acting weird around me. "I know you care about me but isn't it a bit...too much?" I quirked my brows at him."Earth I am just looking after you, that's it...you don't have to be cold to me" He tried to touch my hair but I disappeared and appeared beside him. "Now you are using what I taught you against me...how nice!" He cried sarcastically."I don't like your touch" I
"Woohooo look who remembers us now...look at his sulking face after being disappointed...Again!!" "Arthur, we should pacify him not rub wounds on him" Dan hit the man's head with the book in his hand. I don't want to talk to any of them right now. My head is still confused, so I sat myself down and leaned my body against the Sapling. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep when I heard Dan say "He must be hurt now... I always told you he was a sensitive person, now see what you've done". I took a long sigh and went back to my sleeping. "Here have this...it will calm you down" I heard Earth's deep aloof voice. I opened one of my eyes to see what he wants to give me. My eyes sparkled in surprise. 'Ice cream' I murmured. I collected it and asked, "How did you get it?" "Does it matter? As long as you are happy" He touched my hair. "Hmmmmmmmm, dog food" Arthur whined. I blushed when he said that. He got the ice cream just to see me happy. Why does he always make my heart flutter? I don'
This is the second bonus chapterWish you all happy reading....................................Mr Tawan dropped his gun and began clapping his hands.Everyone present stared at him in trepidation. Pete also dropped his gun and flashed one of his dreadful smiles. "You see dad, I will just say these in a sentence...I will not apologise for whatever I had done since I live in the hostel, I can't come to you all of the time, I may have acted cool today...I left the house to greet mother's grave because I missed her and..." Looking at the sad expression on his old man's face, he sighed and suddenly pulled on his ear "I... I am sorry for failing to listen to you. I love you father".The butler and the senior maid watched the scene happily. It wasn't the first time they had both seen the loving scene."Though my promises are pointless, I still promise to obey your rules....happy" He forced a smile. Mr Tawan happily embraced his son and with pride, he announced "He is going to be the futur
Outside the city mall.Pete, with his beguile smile, gazed up at the skyscraper building. He turned his gaze to the guy beside him and his smile broadened. "Do you like here?" He asked.Earth shyly looked around. It was the first time in his twenty-five years of being a ghost to be outside. Seeing so many people, he went closer to Pete. He was scared. After all, it was his first time."Cough cough" Pete coughed hard. His eyes were burning from the incense stick in his hand.Earth peeped at him worriedly. "Is it choking you? Are you in pain?" The innocent ghost blinked his eyes. Pete gritted his teeth as he clenched his fingers around the stick so hard that if he was to put any more strength, it was going to smash to smithereens. He didn't know if the silly ghost beside him was dumb or pretending to be. His emerald eyes scanned the plaza delightedly. It was his first time as well being outside with a lot of people. It was either he stayed at home or at his hostel. "When will your l
It was already nightfall. On the beach. Two men sat side by side as they observed the sunset attentively. Pete was all smiles all through as he could finally breathe without being surrounded by his heavy guards. He was glad to have this bit of freedom. He turned his face towards the ghost. "You must be so happy to be finally out of the cemetery?" He spoke his eyes happy for the man beside him. Earth hummed out as he relaxed his body. From the look on his handsome face, he was very happy. Extremely happy. Pete was contemplating something but with a deep sigh, he looked back at the sky and enquired. "Will you like to leave the cemetery and live with me?" Earth stiffened. By then Pete was looking at him with an expectant gaze. Earth returned the look with a surprised one. "What? Is that possible? But I can't leave there" "If you agree, I know of a way" Pete clarified. But Earth b it his lips and was lost in thought. Thinking, he didn't want to leave, Pete sighed with a dejectedly
The year 2014Day first.It was the ninth month of the year.The autumn season.It is the season of inner calm and a kindly stoicism etched in memories of joy. The autumn comes as a gospel choir, harmonised in such a way that celebrates each hue and shows how they belong together. Autumn is alien. The season of bumper harvests and swaying hay is soon replaced by Hallowe’en and horror. It is a portal to a time of dread when winter’s suffocating skies throttle the land. At its most glorious, autumn is spectacular. The world is a-blaze in its fiery cloak of colours, from incandescent-red to lightning-gold. Then both leaf flame and field light burn bright one last time, ‘are fading into the dying embers of their memory. The pyrotechnic show is over. The lifeless smell of monotoned winter invades the air.Along the side lay individual tombs, and trees are linked to the sides.The autumn leaves were gleaming in dragon flame-red. The flamboyant colours of the summer flowers below are soon ec
"I got so many candies from my new friend and who could it be.....ummmm, a human" I smug in triumph while rambling around them."Didn't someone say I was going insane....guess who the crazy one is now uh? Well, not me" I laughed."All right, we believe you now...Happy" Dan hissed and proceeded on his book."You don't have to show off in front of us..." Arthur scoffed."Whatever, I just proved to you all...I won...hehe hehe hehe" My eyes wandered off to Earth, whose face looks gloomy for some reason. I ceased my brows in bamboozlement as he sat listlessly on one of the branches of the sapling.Is he unhappy that I won?.I looked at the other two to realise they were staring at me. Why did it feel like they have been doing that for a long?."What? what's with the leering?" I grumbled. Earth's languid demeanour was igniting some feeling in me that I don't have a grip on it. And these two were annoying me."I am just wondering....are you actually dumb or pretending to be? Are you blind or
"Woohooo look who remembers us now...look at his sulking face after being disappointed...Again!!" "Arthur, we should pacify him not rub wounds on him" Dan hit the man's head with the book in his hand. I don't want to talk to any of them right now. My head is still confused, so I sat myself down and leaned my body against the Sapling. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep when I heard Dan say "He must be hurt now... I always told you he was a sensitive person, now see what you've done". I took a long sigh and went back to my sleeping. "Here have this...it will calm you down" I heard Earth's deep aloof voice. I opened one of my eyes to see what he wants to give me. My eyes sparkled in surprise. 'Ice cream' I murmured. I collected it and asked, "How did you get it?" "Does it matter? As long as you are happy" He touched my hair. "Hmmmmmmmm, dog food" Arthur whined. I blushed when he said that. He got the ice cream just to see me happy. Why does he always make my heart flutter? I don'
Just like the previous years. Another year passed in a flash. But unlike every year, I wasn't hoping to see my family. I hoped to see that boy. I wish to prove to my friends that he can see me. "When will you stop, Earth?" I recognised the voice but I ignored it."You are only hurting yourself the more and the people around you" The person murmured, his voice sounding hurt."I don't care...I don't have any peace of mind here ok...I just need to find out something, is that too much?" I countered back and faced him "Arthur and Dan do not mind at all, then why you uh?" I interrogated him. For the past years, he has been acting weird around me. "I know you care about me but isn't it a bit...too much?" I quirked my brows at him."Earth I am just looking after you, that's it...you don't have to be cold to me" He tried to touch my hair but I disappeared and appeared beside him. "Now you are using what I taught you against me...how nice!" He cried sarcastically."I don't like your touch" I
Life is short but still full of wonders. Too bad I just realised that now. Now that I am no more. Ever since I have died, my spirit has been roaming around. Funny to say but I have visited up to 100 countries. What I couldn't do when I was alive. Being a ghost is not quite bad but being a lonely one is terrible. For a 15-year-old ghost, I wonder why I haven't been reborn yet. Further, I wonder why my family hasn't come to pay me respect. Is it that they are dead or have they just forgotten about me? Or they are lazy to come here?.Sitting on my grave is far more than being lonely. It is exasperating and thwarting. It is annoying waiting for someone to come and pay my soul respect but still alas no one came. Every year, I wait expectantly but I still get disappointed. My hopes get shattered."Look at our friend being all lonely again when he has handsome friends around" I turned my head to the man that spoke. My mood dampened seeing him."Stop teasing him already, you know he is differ
Bombs rained on the city's crowded streets.A harsh winter wind blew out of the midnight sky. It roared out of the frigid north and thrashed the brooking forest. The force of it bent trees, whipping their bare branches like angry lashes. Shrieking across the river.The maple trees from afar were black and slick in the rain, their bare branches shiny. The flower bed was a soggy matting of dead stems.Bright, flashing lightning lighted up the sky like fireworks; banging, crashing thunder roaring furiously, sizzling, electrifying lightning zipping across the night sky.Amidst the storm, a Porsche car was driving along the hills. Windshield wipers barely kept up with the cold, hard rain. The rain came steady and cold against the windshield and rattled on the roof of the car.Inside the car, two silhouettes were seen. One with a cold expression while the other, saddened.The downcast figure turned his head away and looked out the window, where it had gotten dark and shiny with the lights g